LawTalkers - I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

Do yourself a favor and read Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford. Skip the first 100 pages (you know that story already) and read the projections of the future.

Look, I'm not a utopian saying that robots are going to make everything rosy for everyone.

Hank Chinaski

11-04-2016 11:19 AM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 503336)

Not. Impressed. Did you ever read "A Brief History of Time"? Well, I'm 1:1 with Hawking on everything but wormholes, but the tedious addled-minded holier-than-thou simpletons on this board write me off as some sort of two-bit, funk-peddling jackass. There is no justice, man. No justice, no peace. You ever check out that Savoy Motel?

Hawking? the simple fuck doesn't understand string theory. At. All. I read stuff from people who get the truth, man. Plus, she's got way nicer titties!

http://www.superstringtheory.com/people/gifs/evas.jpg

Eva Silverstein and two of her favorite formulas

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

11-04-2016 11:21 AM

Re: Paul Proteus Shrugged

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 503338)

Look, I'm not a utopian saying that robots are going to make everything rosy for everyone.

As long as the orgasmatrons don't come with an "excessive" setting.

Tyrone Slothrop

11-04-2016 11:40 AM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

Why the Clinton email scandal ("scandal") is bullshit.

sebastian_dangerfield

11-04-2016 11:48 AM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 503337)

Robot panic is the inverse, but equally delusional, cousin of autonomous car utopia.

Both will cause significant changes over time, but not as quickly or as drastically as the breathless are predicting.

Extrapolate Moore's Law.

sebastian_dangerfield

11-04-2016 11:50 AM

Re: Paul Proteus Shrugged

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 503338)

Look, I'm not a utopian saying that robots are going to make everything rosy for everyone.

I'm not saying it'll be necessarily dire. The book is scary, but mostly neutral on it.

sebastian_dangerfield

11-04-2016 11:51 AM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 503341)

Why the Clinton email scandal ("scandal") is bullshit.

It's not the emails. Even the FBI admits that. It's what the emails disclose about the Foundation.

It's always been about the Foundation. The emails are just the shoehorn into the bigger investigation. Come on... you knew that.

ETA: And fuck Vox. That site has 0.0000000 credibility. It's like a high brow Huffington Post, or a left wing Townhall.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

11-04-2016 11:51 AM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 503341)

Why the Clinton email scandal ("scandal") is bullshit.

Do you think Sebby cares?

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

11-04-2016 11:52 AM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 503344)

One of the best run charities around.

But you don't really care, do you?

sebastian_dangerfield

11-04-2016 11:53 AM

Re: Paul Proteus Shrugged

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 503340)

As long as the orgasmatrons don't come with an "excessive" setting.

Speak for yourself.

sebastian_dangerfield

11-04-2016 11:54 AM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 503346)

One of the best run charities around.

But you don't really care, do you?

No one said it isn't. They've said it was used to operate a pay to play scheme. A thing can effect noble and nefarious ends at once.

But you don't really care, do you?

Adder

11-04-2016 11:57 AM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 503342)

Extrapolate Moore's Law.

Yeah, eventually robots will be manufacturing nearly everything. It's just that the "eventually" is on a longer timeline than those preaching doom assert, the "nearly" is probably not as complete and the offsetting adjustments a whole lot harder to predict/visualize.

Also, much of this has already happened and predictions of robot labor doom are probably older than I am.

sebastian_dangerfield

11-04-2016 11:58 AM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 503345)

Do you think Sebby cares?

I agree. It is bullshit. It's always been bullshit. So has been Benghazi. These are just discovery devices. The DOJ shut down the agents who wanted to open a broad investigation of the Foundation back in February. Those agents are now doing what agents often do -- cultivating alternative sources. Weiner has turned out to be a very useful device to reopen the broader investigation.

You think WSJ and Fox are running a story stating there are likely indictments coming related to the Foundation just for fun? Granted, Fox has bias. But the Journal is a trade rag for an industry that supports Hillary.

Adder

11-04-2016 11:59 AM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 503344)

It's not the emails.

Okay, well, how about tell everyone who complains about the emails.

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Even the FBI admits that.

Which FBI?

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It's always been about the Foundation.